Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10

journeyman's elbow to be sure his work
is right, or if the cashier must run over
the bookkeepers columns, he might as
well do the work himself as to employ
another to do it in that way. 1t is certain
that an employer will get rid of such an
inaccurate workman as soon as possible. /
knew such young man. He had good
chance. TO do well, but he was so inaccurate
and unreliable the people were afraid to
trust him. If he wrote deed, or mort
gage, or a contract, he was sure to leave
out something or put in something to make
1t an imperfect paper. He was lawyer
without business, because he lacked the
noble quality of accuracy. Just across the
street from him was another young lawyer,
who was proverbial for accuracy. He was
famous for searching titles, and when he
wrote out the history of the title to
piece of property, it was taken for granted
it was Just so. His aim was absolute accu-
racy in everything. If he copied convey
ance, cited legal authority, or made a
statement, he aimed to do it exactly. The
consequence is he is having a valuable
dl Tie bdI, dll1 Is universally
esteemed, But" SAYS some boy, "when
become man that is the way shall do.
l mean to be very accurate" Perhaps so.
| could tell better if | knew Just how YOU
do your work now There are several
ways of getting lesson. One is TO get it
"tolerably WE'LL" which does not cost
much labor; the other way is to get it
faultlessly well, which costs great deal of
labor. A boy can get general idea of his
lesson very soon, but to get it with accu-
racy is very hard, and requires both time
and industry. If you, my boy, to-day are
getting your lesson in the slipshod way.
You will grow ;up slipshod man; but if
to-day your habit is TO get every lesson
with perfect accuracy, will warrant Won
will do that way when you become man.
How is it?-.Selected.
"THE CATsUP SOCIETY,""
OF course that wasn't its real name; that
was only what Tom, Adde'S brother. called
the society to which she and her sister
Susie belonged. You see there was some
thing very tantalizing in the fact that Sue
and Addie as well as his two cousins, Lou
and Alice, were in a secret, and had badges
with Greek letters on, while he, being a
boy, could not belong" However, the
members were allowed to tell the name of
their society, and Tom decided to ask Susie
as soon as he could. But when she replied.
"The Catch-Up Society,"" Tom exclaimed
scornfully, " Poh the Catsup Society,"
Trust the girls for getting into all the eat
ing clubs they cam About two months
before, Miss Helen Gates, the Sunday
school teacher of the four little cousins
and of two other little girls, had suggested
to her class that each one start piece of
work that she could take up at odd times.
When Jennie Newton, the Youngest one
of the class, said: "And can we have lovely
badges with real Greek letters on them ?'
Miss Helen said, Yes" Almost all of
the girls were between II and 13, and so
could make quite variety of useful things.
At the first meeting, although it was then
April, the members decided to begin at
once to prepare box to be sent next De-
cember to the family of some poor, hard
working Western missionary. So Miss
Helen gave Susie and Alice some little
dresses to make, started two tam o'shanters
for Addie and Jennie-one blue and one
red-while Lou undertook bingham
apron. All through the long, hot summer
the girls did their work we'll, not growing
tired and giving up, as Miss Helen feared
some of them would. Especially during
that sultry August did it seem, as Addie
said, ''as if no people would ever again need
things to keep them warm" BY the 1st of
December there was a pretty large col
lection of warm, useful articles. Miss
Helen, too, had been busy, and when she
came to pack, found that the box which
Adde'S father had thought would be fully
large enough, would not hold all the
clothes. But he had no other, except one
that was nearly twice as big; what could
they do? Miss Helen decided on the
larger one, saying to Adde'S father in a
| tone that was half laughing, half sober,
You and |, Mr.. Stevenson, will fill the
empty space with provisions" Adde'S
father smiled and said: "Indeed we
will, and the matter was settled. But as
soon as Tom heard that his father was 60
ing to help about the box, he said he
thought he ought to do the same, and he
went as quickly as he could to the nearest
grocery. When he came back he handed
a peculiarly-shaped bundle to Susan with
the words, This was the most appro-
pirate thing | could find When Susie
took off the wrapping-papers she saw
a bottle of catsup. 4 few weeks
later Miss Helen called special meeting
of the Society to read the letter which
had come from the minister 10 whom the
box had been sent. Among other things,
he said: UNLESS you know more than
most Eastern people do about the bitter
| severity of our winters, you can have no
idea of the gratitude with which we re-
ceived your box. Already this winter the
thermometer has been thirty five below
zero, and three weeks ago | wrote SER
mon in one of our two rooms, with small
stove at one end and snow coming in at
the other. Usually we manage to keep
the rain and snow outside but when we
are attacked by even our mildest billiards
we are helpless. Everything you have
sent has proved useful, and my wife joins
me in feeling the gratitude which | fear
express but poorly" That evening Tom
said; " Pm sure | can't know of anything
more warming than catsup."-P a1lsy